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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Mesopotamian Geography
Mesopotamia is located betweenwhat two rivers?
$100 Answer from Mesopotamian Geography
The Tigris and the EuphratesRivers
$200 Question from Mesopotamian Geography
When the Tigris and the Euphrateswould flood, a fine soil would be leftbehind. What is this fine mixture of soiland tiny rocks called?
$200 Answer from Mesopotamian Geography
Silt
$300 Question from Mesopotamian Geography
Mesopotamia is located in whatlarger, arc shaped region of fertilefarmland?
$300 Answer from Mesopotamian Geography
The Fertile Crescent
$400 Question from Mesopotamian Geography
In order to keep cities from flooding, Mesopotamians learned to use ________,or the ways of supplying water to land through the use of canals, ditches, and reservoirs.
$400 Answer from Mesopotamian Geography
Irrigation
$500 Question from Mesopotamian Geography
Because of the surplus of food thatcame as a result of the invention of farming, people were able to have jobslike crafters, government workers, and religious leaders. This idea is called____ __ ____.
$500 Answer from Mesopotamian Geography
Division of Labor.
$100 Question from Ancient Sumer
What is the difference between rural areasand urban areas?
$100 Answer from Ancient Sumer
Rural areas can be described as farmlandor countryside while urban areas are city – like.
$200 Question from Ancient Sumer
The Sumerians practiced a beliefin more than one God. What is this called?
$200 Answer from Ancient Sumer
Polytheism
$300 Question from Ancient Sumer
The division of society by rank orclass is called ________.
$300 Answer from Ancient Sumer
Social Hierarchy
$400 Question from Ancient Sumer
An _________ is a land with different territories and peoplesunder a single ruler.
$400 Answer from Ancient Sumer
Empire
$500 Question from Ancient Sumer
A _________ consisted of a city and all the countryside aroundit. They also had their own military,government, land, name, and laws.
$500 Answer from Ancient Sumer
City - State
$100 Question from Achievements
Mesopotamians created the firstwriting system. This writing system is called what?
$100 Answer from Achievements
Cuneiform
$200 Question from Achievements
They wrote using clay tabletsfor “paper” and ________ for “pencils.”
$200 Answer from Achievements
Styluses made from reeds fromthe riverbanks.
$300 Question from Achievements
Their writing consisted of picture symbols, or ________.
$300 Answer from Achievements
Pictographs
$400 Question from Achievements
Without the Mesopotamian inventionof the ______, we may not have cars,bicycles, or even trains.
$400 Answer from Achievements
Wheel
$500 Question from Achievements
What number was the Sumerian number System based on?
$500 Answer from Achievements
The number 60.
$100 Question from Test Questions
The word Mesopotamia means…
$100 Answer from Test Questions
“Land between the rivers”
$200 Question from Test Questions
If Hammurabi wrote his code in approximately 1800 BC, how many years ago did he write it?
$200 Answer from Test Questions
Approximately 3800 years ago.
$300 Question from Test Questions
A writer from ancienttimes is known as a what?
$300 Answer from Test Questions
A scribe.
$400 Question from Test Questions
The Sumerians built large,pyramid shaped temples in orderto worship their gods. These templeswere called…
$400 Answer from Test Questions
Ziggurats
$500 Question from Test Questions
Why did Mesopotamians build wallsaround their city-states?
$500 Answer from Test Questions
For protection.
$100 Question from Potpourri
This emperor created the first code oflaws in history.
$100 Answer from Potpourri
Hammurabi created the first codeof laws in history.
$200 Question from Potpourri
These men performed religious ceremonies.
$200 Answer from Potpourri
Priests.
$300 Question from Potpourri
Finish this law :“If a man put out the eye of anotherman, his __________________.”
$300 Answer from Potpourri
“eye shall be put out.”
$400 Question from Potpourri
Which crime brought a greater penalty? Injuring a poor man or injuring a wealthy man?
$400 Answer from Potpourri
Injuring a wealthy man broughta greater penalty.
$500 Question from Potpourri
These were probably Sumer’s mostfamous works of art. They were stone cylinders engraved with design that could be rolled across to leave behind an imprint. They were mostly used to show ownership of items.
$500 Answer from Potpourri
Cylinder seals.
Final Jeopardy
Give me three things the invention of farming caused.
Final Jeopardy Answer
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